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UN 2001 Conference on the Illicit Trade
in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects
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Trans-Atlantic Information Resources
"Let's
Control the Small Arms Trade" by Chris Patten & Anna Lindh
Letter to the International Herald Tribune, 30 June
2001
NATO
Communiqué Meeting of Foreign Ministers in
Budapest, 29-30 May 2001. See paragraphs #55, #74, and #75
for statements regarding small arms and light weapons.
EU
Commission: Communication
from the Commission on Conflict,
11 April 2001
EU contribution
to combating the destabilising accumulation and spread of
SALW in Latin America and the Caribbean,
EU Statements from the Third Prep Com, March 2001
Declaration by the EU & the US on the Responsibilities
of States and on Transparency Regarding Arms Exports,
18 December 2000.
Regional Initiatives for UN Conference
Bamako Declaration on an African
Common Position on the Illicit Proliferation, Circulation
and Trafficking of Small Arms and Light Weapons Ministerial
Conference, Bamako, Mali, 30 November-
1 December 2000.
Brasilia
Declaration of the Regional Preparatory Meeting of the Latin
American and Caribbean for the 2001 United Nations Conference
on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All
Its Aspects Brasilia, Brazil, 22-24 November 2000.
The
Nairobi Declaration on the Problem of the Proliferation of
Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Great Lakes Region
and the Horn of Africa Nairobi, Kenya, 15 March 2000.
For other regional initiatives on small arms and light
weapons, see Illicit Small Arms Trafficking
Government Views
Small Arms and
Light Weapons: US Policy and Views
Small Arms and Light Weapons:
Canadian Policy and Views
Small Arms and Light Weapons:
A Global Problem, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
London, December 2000.
Additional UN 2001 Conference
Resources
Speeches/Letters
Implementation and
Follow-on: Priorities and Responsibilities
Presentation by Michael Crowley, Senior Analyst,
BASIC, on behalf of the Biting the Bullet project, 16 July
2001
NGO Letter to British
Prime Minister Tony Blair for EU-US Summit
June 2001
How Guns Get to War Zones - Techniques of Clandestine Arms Delivery
Briefing by Amnesty International, BASIC, International Alert,
Oxfam, and Saferworld at Third PrepCom for UN 2001 Conference,
March 2001
Arms Brokers and Shipping
Agents Speech by Michael Crowley, Senior Analyst,
BASIC, at Lancaster House, London, 14 February 2001
Reduction and
control of Illicit trade in small arms and light weapons;
U.N. Arms Embargoes Require Better Enforcement Speech
by Michael Crowley, Senior Analyst at BASIC, to the Second
Preparatory Committee for the U.N. 2001 Conference on Illicit
Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons In All It's Aspects,
18 January 2001
Organizations
United Nations Department for Disarmament
Affairs
International Action Network on
Small Arms (IANSA), an international network of non
governmental organizations working to address the proliferation
of small arms, provides conference resources.
Small Arms Working Group
(SAWG), an alliance of U.S.-based non-governmental
groups working together to promote change in U.S. and international
policies on small arms, offers policy recommendations for
the conference.
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